Symantec Advanced Threat Protection Other Advice

Dennis O'Reilly - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber SecOps Principal at Dotcom Security

I rate Symantec Endpoint Protection a nine out of ten. I highly recommend it to others as I have used it for many years. It is a stable product that helps us secure our environment.

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Pradeep Bedse - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Team Lead at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I rate it a seven out of ten. It is time we get advanced options on ransomware and threat protection, as these features are still lacking and pushing us to explore new technology.

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RB
Manager, Information Technology at Spanish Court Hotel

Once it's been properly updated, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection works properly. I've had a few security incidents running the solution during the couple of years I used it.

I prefer Symantec Advanced Threat Protection to FortiGate because I can set it up to receive notifications.

Overall, I rate Symantec Advanced Threat Protection a nine out of ten.

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RH
Director Security Operations at a tech company with 201-500 employees

I am not a big fan of them being bought out by Broadcom. They're not their own entity, but it didn't turn out to be a bad thing so far. So, I'd just be cautious about a company that is bought out by an investment company like Broadcom. They typically buy companies to let them die. That would be the only concern I have.

I would rate Symantec Advanced Threat Protection a seven out of 10, just because there is so much competition. Five years ago, I would have rated it higher than that.

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KG
Senior security officer at LIB

I definitely recommend the solution. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

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Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Defense & Offensive Security at Habib Bank Limited

I think you should procure this product. It is a long-term investment.

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Rodrigo Perez - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Abu Dhabi University

Overall I can recommend the product. It's pretty much the best for protecting from intrusions or other malicious items that are coming from the endpoint and the servers. If you have the ATP software, it will actively seek out whatever is being affected inside it because it has PFM threat protection enabled for it. Each of these features is not normally found for endpoint protection.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

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Faisal Mian - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at ABM Info. tech

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. It's mostly okay, however, it could be better in some areas.

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BK
Lead IT Security Consultant at Compliance Data Systems Kft.

We have been platinum partners with Symantec.

The solution is at a bit of a crossroads due to its acquisition by Broadcom and they changed their EDI solution because Broadcom had an EDI network solution too. There were EDI scanners in the network, but it's on the side. Now they have a new direction in this area, due to the fact that they want to solve these processes only from the endpoint side. Frankly, I am still waiting for the restart of this new direction. I do not think it's enough. 

While most deployments are using on-premises, we have some hybrid and cloud solutions too. It depends on the customer.

Whether or not this is a suitable solution for a company depends on its network and requirements. Different products offer different benefits. A company needs to shop around to see which fits best. For example, it's not the best solution for enterprise companies. Also, their price is not the cheapest, however, there are many more that are more expensive as well. 

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

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MA
Asst. Manager System Administration at Saudi Re

This is a good solution, and whatever our requirement is, all of the features are there.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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VC
Senior Director of IT Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It's a solid solution.

Do your testing. Get a trail edition. Try to attack it with malware in your lab. See how it will stand up in a bake-off.

The key thing is to keep up with all the industry changes. There are more services running on the cloud and figuring out how to do that.

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Pradeep Bedse - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Team Lead at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10. 

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SS
Competitive Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend GravityZone over the Symantec package.

Symantec has a lot of products which are working individually and separately and in the last two or three years, they have tried hard to integrate one with the other. ATP has had some serious features cut, and they're not working timing-wise if you don't integrate it with endpoint protection. My advice to the company would be to either make them work individually, separately or to integrate them seriously. 

The dependency between several separately sold products from Symantec is bothersome. You buy a product, for example, Endpoint Protection and, a lot of the features only work if you buy also another product, say ATP. If you want the network detection or manage services or whatever other technology you have to buy another product which also integrates with the first and the second one, and so on.

This is one of the reasons that I like GravityZone because it has everything inside. The worst part is that you don't buy the license for some feature that's inside. They are already there, they are already working. You can at least deactivate them if you don't buy the add-on license. Symantec has the exact opposite perspective. You have to buy each individual product and then integrate them. For a small company, the integration part is easy. If you have 500 endpoints, you integrate three or four and separate the security products, it's done. If you have a complex company with branch offices and separate domains etc. the integration part may take you months of work because the products are separately sold which is bothersome.

I would rate this solution between 8 or 8.5 out of 10.

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RP
CyberSecurity Operations Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We originally deployed the on-premises model, but over the past year, we've started to use the cloud deployment as well.

It would be really great if we had some involvement from Symantec's side. Some of the other endpoint protection products in the market or other companies who are selling the same product, are, in my experience, really helpful. That's one thing that's lacking on the Symantec side. For those considering implementing the product, try to get Symantec as involved as possible. It would be better.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten, based on the cloud capabilities and the privacy offered.

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